Maybe bc they are human?

Because they’re cucks

I think it is important to recognise people as people. I'm not making excuses for intentionally malicious wealthy or powerful people -- but the wealth or power itself isn't the whole problem (although the various systems that perpetuate and enable certain wealthy or powerful people are problematic of course), and we shouldn't give these adults that as an excuse.

They're wealthy, yes. They're also human beings who choose to be cruel, callous, selfish, uncaring arseholes.

They're powerful, yes. They're also adults who know what they're doing and consistently make the decision to harm people with their choices.

Netanyahu's political power wouldn't be as much of a problem in and of itself if he wasn't choosing to enact a genocide. Murdoch's wealth wouldn't be as much of a problem in and of itself if he didn't choose to use it to buy media outlets and push right-wing lies to millions.

No excuses for cruelty; the money and power didn't "corrupt" these people, because we don't live in a fantasy world where money and power are magic cursed items. These people intentionally decided to be cruel.

From personal experience from people that I know who love to defend the wealthy they believe that if we defend the wealthy and give them everything that they want eventually thry will give us something back as well and we will enjoy a better life. Somehow?

Because a person deserves to be considered person whether they think you worth of being so or not.

A faceless, dehumanized enemy will forever be out of reach, unsurpassable in reach and power. A flesh a blood human doing a skin and bone job is replaceable by most any of us because no matter how much power they might have, they are only people.

Numerous reasons.

Lots of people don’t want anyone to disturb the system…”upend the apple cart” as it were. A known, even if shitty, is still better than the unknown. Like people pining for lives under the rule of some harsh autocrat. Even if your neighbor disappeared one night thanks to the State Police, it was better than worrying about the less-harsh policing that lets kids get away with graffiti-ing everything or the petty theft you’re always hearing about.

Also, if they come for the rich people, they’ll come for you. If they tax the rich, they’ll tax you. If you support the rich, people will remember that, and they’ll come for you.

Maybe a little of the “I could be rich someday” idea too, so they support obscene wealth with the idea they could somehow also be rich no matter how minuscule the chance. The irony being the wealthy are the ones supporting barriers preventing you from even achieving financial security, forget ever being wealthy.

Because they "earned" or achieved wealth, i.e. worked really hard to become rich

• they want to be them
• brainwashed workers
• ignorance

Take your pick theres no end to the reasons. There will always be an endless supply of bootlickers and hate.

Humans will anthromorphize anything

The rich people are almost all psychopaths and probably got that way because of the way wealth warps people's minds.

https://youtu.be/IP2EKTCngiM

I believe that's because they are the same as them (or would like to be) and would behave the exact same way if they were in their position.

Stockholm syndrome

They be dragons.

It makes me wonder if some of the dragons written in literature are just an allegory for the ultra wealthy and powerful of their time that were hoarding unimaginable wealth while the huddled masses starved.

They're trained to.